Pennantia

Pennantia corymbosa

Pennantia is the only plant genus of the family of Pennantiaceae within the Doldenblütlerartigen ( Apiales ). Previously, this genus was placed in the family of Icacinaceae.

Description

Pennantia species are always woody plants are shrubs, small trees or rarely to lianas. The alternate and spirally arranged on the branches, stalked leaves are lobed or rarely simple. Most leaf margins serrated. Stipules absent.

The inflorescences are constructed differently; The flowers can also be individually in the leaf axils. The flowers are hermaphrodite or unisexual; if they are unisexual then the plants are dioecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( dioecious ). The small flowers are usually fünfzählig radial symmetry. The five sepals are usually grown Roehrig and are also available on the fruit. The five petals are free or fused. The five fertile stamens are with each other freely, but sometimes fused with the petals. Two carpels are fused into a superior ovaries. There are one or two stamps available, style is recognizably, the scars are so sedentary.

They are single-seeded drupes.

Dissemination

Their home is New Zealand, Norfolk Island and the north-eastern Australia. In the Māori names of the species Kaikomako.

Species

There are only four species of the genus Pennantia and therefore also in the family Pennantiaceae:

• Pennantia baylisiana ( WRBOliv. ) GTSBaylis: It is endemic to the Three Kings Islands ( New Zealand).
• Pennantia corymbosa J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. Can be found in the lowland forests of the North and South Islands of New Zealand.
• Pennantia cunninghamii Miers: The home is Australia.

Swell

• The Pennantiaceae family in APWebsite (English )
• Description of the family of Pennantiaceae in the New South Wales Flora Online. (English )